ASF Incubator Presentation at OSCON

My OSCON proposal has been accepted: So, You Want to Build an Open Source Community: Learning from Apache . The hope is to share lessons learned from the Apache Incubator . There are a number of audiences that I can imagine interested in this topic:

• Foundations and groups looking to create their own “incubator”
• Project teams seeking to enter Apache’s incubator
• Project teams seeking to simply grow or strengthen their existing community
• Anyone interested in how open source communities work

An important philosophical distinction of the Apache Software Foundation is the emphasis of community over code. For ASF projects, a broad and active developer and user community is a critical measure of health and success. Ted Husted recently wrote some great entries on this subject. It’s something I’m hoping to expand on further at OSCON.

As I’m still putting the talk together, feel free to send me any suggestions or questions, especially if you’ll be attending the conference too.